Show Local Briefs Rev N P Tedrick will preach his farewell sermon today at the First Methodist church The funeral services over the remains re-mains of William H Wright will beheld be-held today in the tabernacle beginning at 11 oclock Hundreds visited the artificial skating skat-ing rink yesterday and a merry time was had until way into the night by crowds of skaters Seats for the Madam Scalchl concert con-cert at the Grand Tuesday will likely beat be-at a premium before the curtain rises Walter Clark acting manager of the Grand is making every arrangement for this firstdads musical production to be put on with every needed facility It will be a great concert The skating race arranged for yesterday yes-terday between Troburn and Anderson was postponed one of the skaters refusing re-fusing to go on because the ice was so rough A match race between Calvert and Baker two boys resulted in favor of Calvert with Baker close at his heels The race for smaller boys had quite a number of entries and was won by a lad named Taylor There was standing room only at the Grand last night which by the way was the first night under the nfanage mont of Walter Clark The play was called The South Before the War It was a play without a plot however and there was quite a number of amusing amus-ing specialties including negro songs dances and a cake walk The human frog a contortionist was a very popular pop-ular feature C A Barrows returned Thursday with his wife from California Mr Barrows it will be remembered is a G A R man who some time ago lost his reason from the effect of a sunstroke sun-stroke receivedwhile in actual service He spent several months in the asylum asy-lum and was then released as cured Of late his onalady seemed t6 be returning re-turning andhiswife him to California Cali-fornia to get him into the Soldiers Home She urisuccessful l and since their return nome Mr Barrows again became violent and the sheriff was obliged to take him in charge He will have another examination Monday and will likely be recommitted to the asylum asy-lum |